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Ian Simpson


Born
in Edinburgh, The United Kingdom
July 05, 1949

Died
December 11, 2017

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After doing criminal defence work at the Scottish bar, I spent eighteen years on the bench, latterly sitting part-time as a temporary High Court judge. When I retired due to ill-health I turned from crime fact to crime fiction. In 2008 I was shortlisted for the Debut Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association. Murder on Page One is my first book to be published. Murder on the Second Tee is my second. Murder in Court Three came out at Easter 2015. Murder in the Fourth Round is the latest in the series.
Sons of the Fathers and The Andrean Project are different from the others as they are 'faction'. I have always admired the great Bobby Jones, who has a special affinity to St Andrews, my home town. In these books I have weaved murder mysteries in
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Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie

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If Andrew Lownie, wearing his agent's hat, had tried to flog this as a work of fiction I suspect some publishers would have rejected it as being too far-fetched; the reader would be unable to suspend disbelief. But it's fact, and likely to be as near the truth as is possible in the murky world of espionage. Th Read more of this blog post »
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Published on September 13, 2016 04:28
Average rating: 3.56 · 81 ratings · 35 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
Murder on Page One

3.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Murder on the Second Tee  (...

3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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Murder in Court Three (Flic...

3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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Sons of the Fathers (Sherif...

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Murder on Page One Murder on the Second Tee Murder in Court Three Murder in the Fourth Round
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Sons of the Fathers The Andrean Project
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Quotes by Ian Simpson  (?)
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“Now, I don’t give a barmaid’s tits about the truth.”
Ian Simpson, Murder on Page One

“A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.”
Ian Simpson, Murder on Page One

“Now, are you just a bloody noisy tosspot, or are you going to help me?”
Ian Simpson, Murder on Page One